Sex and Pregnancy: From Evidence-Based Medicine to Dr Google

230 Pages·2022·2.318 MB·English

by  Dan Farine

Sex and Pregnancy

Sex and Pregnancy
From Evidence-Based Medicine to
Dr Google
Edited by
Dan Farine
MountSinaiHospital,Toronto
Pablo Tobías González
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Dedicated to my sister and brother-in-law, Esther
and Jacob Burstein.
Dan Farine
Manolo, Basilio, Carmen, Guillermo and Javier,
thank you for your loveand guidance.
Silvia, thank youfor your strengthand patience.
Manuel,thankyouforyourlaughterandcuriosity
PabloTobíasGonzález

Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Section 1 General Issues 8 Using the Internet to Educate on
Sex andPregnancy:Grading
1 From Sexfor Reproduction to Internet Information 49
Reproduction withoutSex 1 Noa Gilad, Yariv Yogev,and Michael
Gian CarloDi Renzo, Valentina Lavie
Tosto, Valentina Tsibizova, and
Giuseppe Benagiano Section 2 Specific Issues
2 Sex inPregnancy: 9 Sex andAssisted
BeyondReproduction 8 Reproductive Technologies 55
David Gómez Sánchez, Carlos López
Trish Dinh and Crystal Chan
Ramón yCajal, and María Luisa
MoralesSerrano 10 The Male Partner’sPerspective 63
MarcosLuján Galán
3 Physiology of Pregnancy As Related
to Sex 15 11 Sex inthe First Trimester 70
Silvia BarrasBermejo and Pablo Kirsten M.Niles
TobíasGonzález 12 Sex inthe Second and
4 Does OrgasmAffectFetal Well- Third Trimesters 77
Being? 23 Rita Zlatkin and HadarRosen
Ayelet Dangot,ElianeRozanes,and 13 Sex with Bleedingin the
Ariel Many First Trimester 92
Hugo Madar, Aurélien Mattuizzi,
5 Demographics ofSexual Behavior
Hanane Bouchghoul, and Loïc
in Pregnancy 27
Sentilhes
Hanna R. Goldberg and Karthika
Devarajan 14 SexwithBleedingintheSecondand
Third Trimesters 97
6 Sexual Practices during Pregnancy
Hisham T. Nasief, Duaa M. Bahkali,
in Different Cultures 32
and Lawrence W. Oppenheimer
RachelSpitzer and JennyYang
15 Short Cervix andSex 104
7 What Do Obstetric Yara MaiaVillar deCarvalho,
GuidelinesSay? 43 Francisco MarceloCarvalho, Beatriz
Vered B. Lamhot, Ola Gutzeit, and Maria Villar de Carvalho, and
Dana Vitner EduardoBorgesda Fonseca
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viii Contents
16 Preterm Birth and Sex 112 22 Sex for Induction of Labor 165
Julia Burdand Vincenzo Berghella Jazleen Dada and StefaniaRonzoni
17 Multiple Pregnancies and Sex 120 23 Nipple Stimulation
Hayley Lipworth, JonF. R. Barrett, during Pregnancy 173
and NirMelamed Doron Kabiri,GaliGordon,and
YossefEzra
18 Special Pregnancies and Sex 128
Evangelia Vlachodimitropoulou 24 Sex during the Postpartum: Why
Koumoutsea andCynthia Maxwell the Six-Week Break? 178
E. Shirin Dason,Abi Kirubarajan,
19 Air EmbolismRelated to Sex in
and Mara Sobel
Pregnancy and
the Postpartum 138 25 SexafterPelvicFloorInjuries 188
Dina Mohamed,Mohamed Momtaz, María del Mar Muñoz Muñiz, Sara
and Dan Farine Serrano Velayos, and ÁngelesLeal
García
20 Pelvic andOvarian Masses
during Pregnancy 144 26 Miscarriages, Spontaneous
Elisa Moreno PalaciosandPablo Abortions,Stillbirths,andSex 195
TobíasGonzález Orli Silverberg andDan Farine
21 Sexually Transmitted Infections
and Pregnancy 149
María Serrano Velasco and Cristina
González Benítez Index 205
Contributors
Duaa M. Bahkali BeatrizMariaVillar deCarvalho
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Santa Casa University,São Paulo,Brazil
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario,
Yara Maia Villarde Carvalho
Canada
Faculdadede Medicina Nova Esperança,
Jon F.R. Barrett João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Crystal Chan
McMaster University,Hamilton, Ontario,
MountSinaiHospital,SinaiHealthSystem,
Canada
and Department of Obstetrics and
Giuseppe Benagiano Gynecology, University ofToronto,
DepartmentofMaternalandChild Health, Toronto,Ontario, Canada
Gynecology and Urology, “Sapienza”
JazleenDada
University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Cristina González Benítez FacultyofMedicine,UniversityofToronto,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Toronto,Ontario, Canada
LaPaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
AyeletDangot
Vincenzo Berghella Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel AvivSourasky
and Division of Maternal FetalMedicine, Medical Center, Tel Aviv University,Tel
ThomasJefferson University Hospital, Aviv, Israel
Philadelphia, PA,USA
E. Shirin Dason
Silvia Barras Bermejo Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, TemertyFacultyofMedicine,Universityof
HospitalUniversitarioInfanta Cristina, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,Canada
Parla, Spain
Karthika Devarajan
HananeBouchghoul Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, North York General Hospital,Toronto,
BordeauxUniversity Hospital, Bordeaux, Ontario,Canada
France
Trish Dinh
Julia Burd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario,
and Division of Maternal FetalMedicine, Canada
ThomasJefferson University Hospital,
Gian Carlo Di Renzo
Philadelphia, PA,USA
Centre of Perinatal andReproductive
FranciscoMarcelo Carvalho Medicine, University ofPerugia;
Faculdadede Medicina Nova Esperança, Department of Obsterics andGynecology,
João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil IE SechenovState University,Moscow,
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